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Book WP

Book WP is a WordPress theme for authors who wish to create an online book that is easily readable on any device, be it a desktop, laptop, ipad-style tablet or smartphone. By design this theme is very simple. It is meant to mimic a book, and be easy to read. I built it using the great template available at BiblioType.org as a starting point.

Stuff you need to know about this theme:

The blog title is used as the title of the book.
The blog descripion is used as the byline.
Regular posts are designed to be used as chapters in your book. Just post the chapters in the same order that you would read them. (ie, post Chapter 1 first, Chapter Two next, etc). You can reorder the way they appear in the table of contents by changing the “date posted” of the post.
Links to the next chapter are automatically inserted at the bottom of each chapter. If there is no next chapter, no link is inserted.
Links to user created pages are displayed in the pop up menu that is in the top left of every page. If you want to reorder those links, you may do so using the Menus function in the WordPress Admin’s Appearance tab.
Yes, there is a widget are down at the bottom of the page if you desire to bugger up your online book. You should think twice before filling it with junk, though. Putting too much crap kills the charm and simplicity of the theme. /end rant/
The theme options page (Book WP Options) has two options you can edit. You can use html in both of the options.
1. Title Page Blurb – This is just a section of text that is displayed unter the title/byline and before the table of contents.
2. Page Top Blurb – This is a section of text that goes at the top of every Chapter (regular post) and user created page. Basically everywhere but the front page.
Installation is the same as any other WordPress theme. Just unzip the theme’s folder and drop it in your wp-content/themes directory.

Demo

I’ve installed a demo so that you can see it in action. Book WP Demo.

Download

Book WP v1.0 (10/21/2011)

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Comments (8 Responses)

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January 25th, 2011 Oliver: Any chance Book WP will be developed for Tumblr?
January 25th, 2011 Bryce Beattie: I suppose there’s always a chance, but I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you. Perhaps if there were a large demand I’d take a look at how to theme Tumblr.
October 1st, 2011 aditia: hi nice theme, is it compatible with touch screen device?
October 3rd, 2011 Isra: Hi, it’s possible to publish more than 1 book with this theme? I am building a site for reading online books. Thank you very much!
October 3rd, 2011 Bryce Beattie: Yes. That was one of the reasons I built the theme.
October 3rd, 2011 Bryce Beattie: You could probably rig something using the multisite function of WordPress. I’m not an expert at that, however, so you’re at the mercy of google as to how to set that up. Maybe someday I’ll do a second version that uses categories to manage multiple books or something.